Kath Gotts’s music for her own neat and sexy lyrics hovers on the edge of being memorable — not something one often feels like saying of the modern musical. Lynne Page’s riproaring choreography is concerned to express the vivacity rather than the despair, because this is a show where, as the saying goes, cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

On the road: Bad Girls: The Musical, Shadowmouth, Pygmalionby DOMINIVC CAVENDISH for the Daily Telegraph

The soapish, sensational storyline - involving a hapless newcomer to G-wing, its sexually confused female governor and the predatory screw Jim Fenner - is engaging enough to keep the audience hooked. Plausible pastiches of sundry musical forms abound. What the show doesn't finally do is persuade you that it has got a genuine inner life.

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